This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. ~Author Unknown
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. ~Frederica Mathewes-Green
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. ~Johannes Kepler
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ~Michel De Montaigne
Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. ~Garrett Hardin
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings
Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair. ~Patty Young
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ~John Locke, 16 May 1699
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. ~John Donne, 1623
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~Charlotte Whitton
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~Victor Hugo
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarland
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~Albert Einstein
Most games are lost, not won. ~Casey Stengel
